Aug 12, 2010 | IAR Graduate Profile: DJ Boris

After graduating from IAR in 1993, DJ Boris has been an extremely successful DJ and re-mixer over the last several years. Born in Russia’s St. Petersburg, Boris’s heart pounding driving sound has become one with the “New York sound”, often imitated in cities around the world. Since leaving IAR, he took his first professional DJ gig at the well know NYC club Tilt. He continued working the New York crowds and in time built a steady following from gigs at the Sound Factory, Exit, The Grand, Supper Club, Warsaw and Carbon. Boris’ “Big Friday Party” at New York’s Roxy, along with his residency at the infamous Limelight, kept club-goers dancing until well past 9am the following mornings. In the present, Boris continues pushing his career forward and has been working with major artists and labels. Virgin Records retained Boris to remix Janet Jackson’s “All I Want” and Thalia’s “I’m in Love”. Epic Records used Boris to remix Anastacia’s “Left Outside Alone,” and Atlantic Records contracted Boris to remix Jewel’s “Stand”. Columbia Records employed Boris to remix Pink’s “Real Good Feel Good.” Most notable, he also remixed Pink’s “Get The Party Started”, which went to number one on Billboard Magazine’s dance chart. And with his non-stop professional work ethic, he has been rewarded with dj residencies in every major city. He has also received with two Club World “Best Resident DJ” nominations. He finished in the top 5 in the national America’s Best DJ fan poll, and recently started a new residency at super club Space in Miami. Boris is moving forward and looking to hit the international clubs next!

Aug 05, 2010 | Graduate Profile: Jerome Young

Jerome Young also known as Three Star, is not only a former Iraqi war veteran, but also a creative music producer and song writer. Jerome has been keeping himself busy since being back from Iraq, and recently completed his new mix tape, which is entitled Jah Son Emerge. “I’m loving the creative part but there are a number of challenges.” In order to become a more thorough entertainer, Young has gone into engineering, producing and mixing his own songs with the skills that he gained at The Institute of Audio Research and LaGuardia College. “Most of the time I do everything for myself. I’m going to be releasing my third album soon and I still do a lot of producing for underground artistes. Basically, I’m just exploring all the knowledge that I am gaining from school,” he stated. The first two albums that Young created were when he was in combat in Iraq. The first was called Out of Many One People and the other, released last year, was Nothing But Real Talk. “These two albums spoke of what I was going through during combat in Iraq, but this new album talks about the new energy that I have now found from that experience, especially since I’m back in the real world. On his current release, there is a track featuring Max Romeo entitled Tribal War Inna Babylon. There is another track that he is currently promoting called Hardcore Loving and these two songs are receiving good rotations on radio stations in New York, where he resides. Jerome Young is looking forward to coming to Jamaica to get his career to the next level. “People keep telling me that I am good and that I am the next big thing, so I am basically working towards becoming a household name”, he mentioned. He wants to make a change and has said he will be coming Jamaica to represent good, positive music.

Jul 01, 2010 | Summer 2010 Audio for Picture Awards

On Wednesday, June 30th, IAR hosted its Summer 2010 Audio for Picture (AFP) Awards Festival to a standing room only crowd! In the fourth quarter of IAR’s program, students take an audio post-production course, one of the school’s most popular subjects. In this course, students learn to synchronize audio to video. They then interpret and produce their own post-production projects from start to finish, and can submit them for recognition at IAR’s AFP Awards Festival. Students choose any video piece, such as a movie trailer, movie scene, video game trailer or animated film and they then remove all audio content. Utilizing all of the techniques they have learned at IAR during the first 3 quarters and in the audio post-production course, students recreate every aspect of audio. This includes dialog replacement (ADR), sound FX’s, sound design, and musical selection and composition. AFP teaches and allows students to raise their standards and creativity, and gives them a final project or “demo reel” to showcase their talents. Over twice as many projects were submitted to the Summer AFP Awards Festival 2010. Thank you to every one who submitted! The winners were as follows: 1st Place Best Overall Project Jay Sakong - “28 Weeks Later” (Trailer) 2nd Place Best Overall Project Aditi Iyer & Jon Casale Honorable Mention: Best ADR: Juan Parioni, Russell Reggio & Doug Leibowitz – “Black Hawk Down” (Scene) Best Music Selection/Edit: Colin Smith – “Where the Wild Things Are” (Trailer) Best Mix: Tim Standring – “Howl’s Moving Castle” Best SFX Editing: Ivan Hodoba – “Nightmare Before Christmas” (Scene) Best Sound Design: Ryan Davis & Eddy De La Hoz – “Matriculated” (Trailer) Best Original Score: Jay Sakong – “Nuit Blanche” (Commercial) Most Entertaining: Mark brown – “Delicatessen” (Scene)